What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.

There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many violent mutant strains.

I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.

I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they're both amazing ways to understand human nature.

The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.

If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.